Analysis of Bruises



Red rings around my wrists,
My skin somehow still resists,
From breaking and letting blood loose.
Yet I still go on and abuse.

Red slowly turns blue,
I begin anew.
Rubber band snapping so loud,
When no one is around.

Impossible to tell me to stop,
The pain knife-like sharp,
Feeling going through my skin,
Right into my mind where it settled in.

It all reminds me that I am a shadow,
Of a person you used to know.
Now I sit here, eating the fruit,
Of the great disaster whithin I dispute.


Scheme AABB CCXX XXDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 110111 111101 11001011 11111001 11011 10101 1011011 111101 010011111 01111 1010111 1011111100 1101111101 10101111 11111001 1010101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 494
Words 111
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by rowanwhite on February 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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